Important Motifs

Geography/ Location:

• WILLY'S FAILURE:
• Willy's father found success in Alaska
• Willy turned down trip to Africa, where Ben became rich

• BIFF'S POTENTIAL:
• American West- Biff is content while working on farms and being an individual

Garden:

• planting garden symbolic of Willy needing to leave something behind for people to remember him by.
• never acheived success in life & never planted garden.
• before he died he made an attempt to plant seeds in the backyeard of his fenced-in house.

"The grass dont grow anymore, you can't raise a carrot in the backyard." (Act I - pg. 17)